Texas education officials are looking into a change in the methods slavery is taught to second graders – replacing the word “slavery” with “involuntary relocation” in state standards. The Texas Education Agency, which is responsible for setting curriculums and state-wide student assessment testing, has multiple “work groups” that draft curriculums for each subject and grade.

Once the agency presented the idea to use “involuntary relocation” at a recent State Board of Education meeting, board member Aicha Davis said she was “not OK with that at all.” Davis posted a clip from the meeting on Facebook according to CBS News.

“There is a viral post stating the Texas Education Agency is trying to change the word ‘Slavery’ to ‘Involuntary Relocation’ in Texas history standards,” she wrote in the caption of the video. “Sadly, there is some truth to that statement.”

During the meeting, Davis was asked about the proposed change. “I don’t know if that’s a fair representation of what we should be saying about that journey,” Davis said. A member of the agency told Davis that the work group which came up with this language discussed “what would make sense to second graders” while recognizing there are ideas that need to be addressed between kindergarten to eighth grade.

“They were looking at some trade books that exist and kind of talking about how you would explain to second graders that a lot of people got to this country in very different ways and for very different reasons – some of which were voluntary and some were not. I think the very best way to address that was what they were struggling with,” the agency member said.

Davis says the groups have been told to have additional discussions on appropriate language and terminology. In an email sent to CBS News, board member Pat Hardy says what was presented at the meeting was “an initial draft of 2nd Grade Social Studies standards from a review committee that included a section titled: ‘Enslaved Peoples in America’.”

“While the proposed standards clearly described enslaved peoples in colonial times, the draft description ‘involuntary relocation’ for African peoples who were sold into slavery did not paint a clear or full picture,” Hardy said. “As a result, the SBOE voted unanimously to send the language back to be reworked. This board is committed to the truth, which includes accurate descriptions of historical events.”

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